A gherkin, you ask? Morrison McGill compares a lesson to a burger. Burgers, as you know, are made up of a layer of bread, the burger and then another layer of bread – much like the components of a lesson. What does that burger need to make it that bit tastier – a gherkin (depending on whether you like gherkins!)

This got me thinking about how I could add a gherkin to my lessons, without bringing in a jar of them! A gherkin in a lesson could be, as Morrison McGill writes, the “eureka moment” for students in a lesson, but it could also be something added to a lesson to take it from being a standard, same-old lesson to something which inspires students.

Either way, a colleague of mine made the valid point that too many gherkins could take away the flavour of the main part – were they talking about a lesson or a burger?